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’Manufacturing arbitrage with ETFs
To the average investor, exchange traded (funds/products/commodities/notes), or ETFs for short, are simply shares which track indices. Copper, the FTSE 100, the retail sector, whatever.
Their defenders insist they have revolutionised the industry,
The trillion-dollar ETP market
In case there was any doubt exchange-traded products were developing as the world’s fastest growing asset class, Deutsche Bank — an exchange-traded product issuer — has come out with its first dedicated analysis series observing the degree of the products’ recent ascent.
Introducing collateralised currency securities (updated)
Something like $3,200bn flows through the FX market every day. That’s enough to whet the appetite of any financial service provider in terms of prospective flow action.
The exchange-traded fund community happens to be no stranger to such temptation.
Commodity index inflows are back
With much attention focused on commodity exchange-traded-product flows, one could be forgiven for overlooking the passive commodity index-linked mutual fund space.
Nevertheless, as Barcap pointed out in a recent research note,